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Very Little ... Almost Nothing - Death, Philosophy and Literature (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Very Little ... Almost Nothing - Death, Philosophy and Literature (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Series: Warwick Studies in European Philosophy
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'This is a very brave book ...it makes philosophical conversation
possible again after two decades of pragmatist intolerance.' -
Roger Poole, Parallax '(T)his is an often beautifully written
philosophical act of mourning ...It also commands respect because
it obliges one to examine the fictions one employs to avoid really
doing philosophy. Critchley's steadfastly post-Kantian rejection of
theological answers to the questions he asks is very welcome.' -
Andrew Bowie, Radical Philosophy 'Very Little ...Almost Nothing
manages with some aplomb, to pull off the extraordinarily difficult
task of saying something new and interesting about Beckett and
Blanchot.' - Martin McQuillan, New Formations ' Critchley keeps his
writings for the most part powerful and elegant, wide-ranging but
well-focussed. The book is at all times sibylline, moving,
insightful, explorative.' - Colin Davis, French Studies Very Little
...Almost Nothing puts the question of the meaning of life back at
the centre of intellectual debate. Its central concern is how we
can find a meaning to human finitude without recourse to anything
that transcends that finitude. idea of nihilism through Blanchot,
Levinas, Jena Romanticism and Cavell, culminating in a reading of
Beckett, in many ways the hero of the book. For this Second
Edition, Simon Critchley has added a revealing and extended new
preface, and a new chapter on Wallace Stevens which reflects on the
idea of poetry as philosophy. 'Simon Critchley's readings of
Schlegel, Blanchot and Beckett are remarkably nuanced and
perceptive. Much more than an excellent companion to the study of
the intertwinings of philosophy and literature, it is an admirable
meditation on the ubiquity of finitude and its ungraspability.' -
Jacques Taminiaux, Boston College 'Altogether beautifully written,
with rich and deep insights. It is the most original and
enlightening book I know about the so-called nihilism of present
times and its genealogy and a key book for the understanding of the
contemporary condition of man.' - Michel Haar, Universite de Paris
'A wonderfully lucid and readable account of the issues that,
despite the modesty of Simon Critchley's title, are of infinite
concern and urgency to thought today. interest in philosophy, but
by everyone ...whether their involvement is in literary criticism,
literary theory, or simply in reading itself ...who has a care for
the possibilities and the demands of tomorrow.' - Leslie Hill,
University of Warwick
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